Rain often stops at a ridge. A regional forecast never shows that. A farm in a valley, on a slope or behind a hill can have a very different day from the town the forecast was made for.
Decisions that depend on local weather
- Spraying: wind and rain in the hours after application decide whether a spray works
- Irrigation: rain that fell on your farm should hold back irrigation a timer would run anyway
- Disease: long humid spells and leaf wetness drive blight and mildew
- Planting: soil temperature and the start of the rains on your land, not the county’s
- Records: “was it my block or the season?” needs your own history
What a farm mast measures
Air temperature and humidity, rain, wind speed, sunlight and a probe temperature — logged continuously and kept. Ours also carries a 4G modem and GPS and shares its internet connection with the field sensors around it, so the whole fleet reports through one SIM.
The area map
When neighbouring farms share their readings, a live picture of conditions across the area appears — built from real sensors, not a forecast forty kilometres away. Sharing is off unless you switch it on, and it works both ways.